Two Upcoming Ligmincha Learning Online Courses
'Ngöndro' Begins March 30 and 'The Six Lokas' Begins May 11
TapihritsaLigmincha Learning is offering two upcoming online courses with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: “Ngöndro: The Foundational Practices” starting March 30 and “Transforming Our Emotions Through the Six Lokas” starting May 11.
“Ngöndro: The Foundational Practices” is a nine-month online course with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche that will be held from March 30–December 31, 2019.
The ngöndro teachings are a set of nine practices that offer complete instructions for taming, purifying, and perfecting the suffering mind. Although these practices are considered the foundation for entrance into the five-part cycle of Tibetan Bön dzogchen teachings – Bön’s highest teachings on the nature of mind – many practitioners adopt the ngöndro as their main meditation and complete the nine sets of 100,000 repetitions over the course of a lifetime. Within each is contained the entire path to liberation. They are considered to be the foundational practices for the entire tradition.
There are three groups of ngöndro practices.
The Three Practices for Taming Oneself:
- Opening Your Heart with Guru Yoga
- Impermanence
- Admitting Your Misdeeds
The Three Practices for Purifying Oneself:
- Bodhicitta: Generating the Mind Intent on Enlightenment
- Going for Refuge
- Offering the Mandala
The Three Practices for Perfecting Oneself:
- Purification through Mantra
- Offering Your Illusory Body as a Tsok
- Request for Blessings
“Transforming Our Emotions Through the Six Lokas” is a seven week course running from May 11–June 29, 2019.
Shenlha Okar – Essential Buddha of the Six Lokas Practices
At one time or another each of us suffers strong emotions that throw us off balance, cause us to act in ways that we later regret and make us lose touch with our true nature. Centuries ago, the masters of the Bön lineage developed the meditations of the Six Lokas specifically to remedy this situation, to help us live our lives in a balanced and relaxed way.
The meditations focus on the root causes of our suffering: anger, desire or greed, ignorance, jealousy, pride and laziness. Through each meditation we examine our habitual patterns so that we may recognize them, then invoke the enlightened energy of the buddhas to purify and transform us so that we and all other beings might not continue to suffer in this way. The practices have a deep healing and transformative power, and are traditionally practiced at length as a preliminary to dzogchen contemplation.
Coming in July: Sherap Chamma, Mother of Wisdom and Love with Marcy Vaughn, July 10–August 7, 2019.
